Athena 9 Private Workstation Owner's Guide (AC-103)

Table of Contents

1.0 Introduction
1.1 Athena support
1.1.1 Hardware problems: Athena Hardware Hotline
1.1.2 Software problems: Athena User Consultants
1.1.3 For faculty and teaching assistants: Athena Faculty Liaisons
2.0 Maintaining Your Private Workstation
2.1 Becoming superuser
2.1.1 Who else is logged in?
2.2 From Public to Private
2.2.1 Set PUBLIC=false
2.2.2 Changing the root password
2.3 Shutting down and rebooting your workstation
2.3.1 Shutting down your workstation
2.3.2 Rebooting your workstation
2.3.3 Booting your workstation single user mode
2.4 Backing up and restoring your files
2.4.1 ADSM
3.0 Software Updates
3.1 Getting Athena software updates
3.2 Updating your workstation manually
3.3 When updates affect customizations
3.4 Linux-specific update problems
3.5 Problems with updating
4.0 Customizing Your Workstation via Software
4.1 Acquiring personal third party software
4.1.1 Licensing software
4.1.2 Installing third party software
4.1.3 Setting appropriate file ownership and permissions
4.2 Some pre-login defaults: Username and MOTD
4.2.1 Setting default login username
4.2.2 Suppressing the pre-login MOTD
4.2.3 Adding your own MOTD
4.3 Getting long Kerberos tickets to run batch jobs
4.4 Giving users access your workstation
4.4.1 User authorization
4.4.2 /etc/athena/access

4.4.3 Creating local accounts for Athena users
4.4.4 Guidelines for editing the passwd file
4.4.5 Giving users remote access
5.0 Using Mkserv to Add Services
5.1 About mkserv
5.2 Preparations for mkserv
5.3 Using mkserv
5.4 Obtaining a srvtab or keytab
5.5 Using mkserv remote to allow remote logins
5.5.2 Finishing mkserv remote
5.5.3 Keeping unwanted users out
5.5.4 Setting up applications enabled by mkserv remote
5.6 Creating an NFS Server: mkserv knfs
5.6.1 What kind of fileserver is best for you?
5.6.2 Running mkserv knfs
6.0 Maintaining and Adding Hardware
6.1 Physical security
6.2 Moving your Athena workstation
6.3 Environment requirements
6.4 Configuring external devices
6.4.1 Special note for Ultras
6.4.2 Finding the SCSI ID codes
6.4.3 Creating the device files
6.5 Preparing a new hard disk drive
6.5.1 Partition the disk
6.5.2 Create a file system
6.5.3 Name your mount point
6.5.4 Table entries
6.6 Monitor configuration
6.7 Enabling multi-processor support
6.8 Using a UPS to prevent hardware problems
6.6.1 About UPSs
6.6.2 Characteristics of the UPS
6.6.3 Additional UPS suggestions